Leonardo DiCaprio’s crusade: Vote 4 Stuff

Leonardo DiCaprio finds time to be national chairman of Earth Day and a director of the Natural Resources Defense Council even while delivering Oscar nominated performances for such directors as Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood.

He has now, with his production company Appian Way, launched a youth-directed campaign called Vote 4 Stuff.

It consists of videos calling on young people to use social media in the last month of the campaign, outflanking candidates’ negative TV commercials and saying what issues they want discussed in election 2012.

“We are using the power of social media throughout the Vote 4 Stuff campaign to incite bipartisan conversation around real issues, encourage registration and voting in November,” DeCaprio told the Associated Press.

Americans under 35 are the nation’s most progressive but least reliable voters, studies of the electorate show.